Dog pics

[DieselBound]

Wilco, that snow shot is most impressive! Live each day. The future comes all too soon.

 

[DieselBound]

Kisha turned 6 months old the other day. She weighed in at 56 lbs, having gained only 1 pound in the previous week; figure that she'd slowed down due to the exceedingly hot weather (90s). This dog is more than a handful! Augmenting our training with professional training classes and every other puppy appears like they're on lithium compared to Kisha!

 

[PHPaul]

Daughter brought the pups down for their weekly run. Their home "pen" is 50x100 or so, but they get bored and need to RUN so she brings them down to my fenced 3 acres.

After about half an hour, they're pooped and find a shady spot to rest and survey their domain.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

I couldn’t pay these dogs to look in the same direction

 

[goeduck]

:drumstick::bacon:

I couldn稚 pay these dogs to look in the same direction

A piece of meat in your other hand would have done wonders. :drumstick:

One of my favorite teachings in life was to Focus like a dog on a piece of meat

 

[PhysAssist]

:drumstick::bacon:

A piece of meat in your other hand would have done wonders. :drumstick:

One of my favorite teachings in life was to Focus like a dog on a piece of meat

We use these: Amazon.com: Evriholder Dressing to Go Salad Dressing Containers, Mini Food Storage Containers, Small Dip, Condiment, or Sauce Containers, Leak-Resistant, Set of 3 in: Kitchen & Dining with cheap peanut butter in them for training recall-- it helps get their attention better than anything else we tried.

Now I just have to get them transferred over to a whistle or clicker or something else before they get too fat....

 

[Fattner]

Me and my pup Harley and Santa !!

 

[Alien]

Good pic

 

[Sigarms]

Me and my pup Harley and Santa !!

Have to laugh when I saw this...

Worst "volunteer" job I had:laughing:

Still remember one guy that had 3 dogs that wanted EVERY dog looking at the camera while sitting ON me. Must of taken 10 pics and he still wanted more taken because each dog wasn't "perfectly" looking at the camera. Also felt "kind of" uncomfortable when a young very attractive college girl wanted a pic with her sitting on my lap with the her dog sitting on her lap. Couldn't but help notice the bright pink thong she was wearing and my wife taking the picture LOL

Currently house sitting 2 dogs we adoted out about 8 years ago



See if you can pick out the two from this pic LOL

 

[DieselBound]

Was rifling through some of my pictures and ran across this one of Kisha (about a month and a half ago- age 5 months).

 

[check]

Jasper just got trimmed...

 

[Fattner]

My Harley again, with my new custom Indian motorcylce. And yes he is a golden retriever ! Just a giant one . 3 yrs old

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Does he count for a dog? He comes when I whistle or call for him, he runs when I call lol. He will run and fetch apples but I rarely get them back, he hides them in his belly where I can’t get them to throw for him again.

 

[goeduck]

Looks like a steer but every jersey bull I was ever around wanted to kill me. Cattle do love apples, I always let them have the small varieties but bust up the larger ones so they do not choke on them (which can happen).

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Looks like a steer but every jersey bull I was ever around wanted to kill me. Cattle do love apples, I always let them have the small varieties but bust up the larger ones so they do not choke on them (which can happen).

He is a steer, he’s Angus-Jersey cross. I had a full blooded jersey Steer once. That dude was a bully to people or anything in his pasture, he would sometimes aim his horns at the chickens trying to rob his corn. He did chase off a Fox trying to tear up my chickens though.

My neighbor, mail lady and a few other people saw a fox chasing my chickens then saw my jersey chasing the fox, I free ranged 24-7 for over a year at that point, I lost a bird about every 30-40 days at the end till I sold the flock. So the jersey kept the chickens from being massacred, I have heard stories of people losing 10-30 birds in one night, I never had that but I did have attack cattle watching over the chickens. We have hawks, raccoons, possum, fox and coyotes in the area and surprisingly non wiped out my chickens.

It’s funny, when I first got chickens I looked into a LGD (Great Pyrenees), had one lined up, was gonna train it to look after the flock and live in the stalls back at the barn, then have the Sheppard up at the house, as a pet and to guard the house which he does well, he even scares off the Jehovah’s Witnesses now which is impressive and not easy. But I didn’t think it would be a good fit for my situation and passed on the dog.

About a year after chickens, I got cattle and never needed a LGD after all. A year or two after cattle I lost interest in chickens and sold my flock, still have the coop and supplies, one day I’ll get into them again.



That little red calf was this guy when I first got him, it was a few days before the others let him eat with them.

 

[PHPaul]

Baxter, my Katahdin ram, thought he was a dog too. Not much for fetching, but he dearly loved to be petted and scratched and would follow me around like a puppy.

I used to free-range chickens too, but after my llama died and my wife developed an allergy to pet hair (no more dogs) I lost 14 in 24 hours to a fox. Have since penned them up and now only lose one to the occasional hawk or eagle. Not much to be done about that.

 

[DieselBound]

Nothing better at protecting than dogs. My late, great dog Xena never lost anything to any ground-based or aerial predator. Of course, that was when she was outside (indoor/outdoor dog). Got a LONG way to go to get the new puppy up to speed.

 

[PHPaul]

That's a gorgeous dog, DieselBound. Appears to have some Mastiff in her?

 

[DieselBound]

That's a gorgeous dog, DieselBound. Appears to have some Mastiff in her?

Yeah, that's Xena. We had her put down earlier this year (spinal cancer). Exceptional dog: my wife called her "the perfect dog." Got her at 11 months, a two-time rescue. That picture epitomized what the dog was about: BUSINESS. It's a toss-up as to which picture of her I like the most, that one or this one:


Our pup, Kisha, is also Mastiff+Lab but with Pit-bull (mother). Accidental breeding which a local rescue picked up. She's very similar to Xena in looks, but personality is significantly different (and only time will tell whether she'll be a good farm dog like Xena was).

 

[Navvet]

My sisters dog, "chillin" on a hot summer day ......